Another hotel turns away Pamela Geller and anti-Shariah group

A week after a Hyatt Place hotel forced the Sugar Land Tea Party to move their controversial event featuring Pamela Geller, the same thing seems to be happening in Nashville.

The Tennessean reports that Hutton Hotel canceled a contract for an event where Geller, her partner Robert Spencer and other anti-Shariah activists were scheduled to speak. The hotel is owned by Amerimar Enterprises, which operates Houston’s Hotel Derek.

“If this group had let us know what kind of program they were planning and who was involved, we wouldn’t have booked it,” Steve Eckley, senior vice president of hotels for Amerimar, told the newspaper.

Geller runs the blog Atlas Shrugs and founded the group Stop the Islamization of America. Supporters consider her an advocate of American political liberties and a straight-shooter when it comes to calling out corporations and politicians who cave to Muslim agendas. Opponents call Geller an Islamophobe who engages in fear-mongering over the role of Muslims in the U.S.

Organizers of the event, called Sharia Free USA, say the hotel has caved to sharia law in cancelling their event.

“We will find a new venue,” said Spencer, also of Stop the Islamization of America, “but the Hutton Hotel’s capitulation to Islamic supremacist threats and intimidation is a disgrace, and a disquieting reminder of just how much the freedom of speech is threatened in America today.”

Geller and the Tea Partiers had the same reaction when asked to leave the Hyatt, a chain which Geller and her supporters threatened to protest over the incident. They met at a community center instead. Hyatt has since apologized for not working harder to accommodate them.

“Hyatt respects the diversity of opinions expressed by guests and visitors at our hotels, and we do not make business decisions based on a guest’s or a group’s political or religious views,” the statement said. “This group, like all guests or groups, is welcome at Hyatt hotels, and we would work closely with them in an effort to address any concerns that may arise with future events.”